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Well, back home from PubForum. Thanks to Alex and the other organisers for the organising the event (typically chaotic but it wouldn't be PubForum if things were perfect right?)

What a great bunch of guys (and of course not forgetting the token female!)

A very enjoyable weekend and looking forward to the next one in Nice.

Well, spent most of the bank holiday putting the finishing touches to the slides and lab for next weekends PubForum presentation. The first complete run-through timed exactly to 90 minutes which is quite a feat, but it was a bit stop-and-start as I was making adjustments to my notes at several points, but at least the real timings should allow for some questions at the end.

Gus Pinto has been blogging about a new utility called Citrix Fast Launch.

I was intrigued as to what this was, so watched the videos on his site - and realised it looks exactly like something I wrote in 2001 for a large investment bank.

April will see the first beta release of the next version of XenApp server for the Windows 2008 platform codename "Delaware"

You can sign up to participate in the early release program here

More details of what Delaware contains can be found here

XenApp server 4.5 Hotfix Rollup Pack 2 is out in the wild.

x86 version
CTX116289

x64 version
CTX116294

Go fill yer'boots!

During some high user load testing on a new 64-bit Citrix server build, we noticed Outlook using rather more system resources than it should, which was limited the total number of users we could support.

This Microsoft KB article details a registry tweak you can apply to your 64-bit system to increase the "offline polling" that Outlook performs against your Exchange server, and this in turn reduces the resource usage of Outlook allowing more users per box.

Citrix Education is pleased to announce the latest Citrix Presentation 4.5 Support course. This course provides participants with the skills they need to monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot network environments running Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 software.

Just spotted a post on the Customer Community site about the new name for Citrix iForum - Citrix Synergy - where Virtualization + Networking + Application Delivery Meet

Checkout the website too

Citrix have posted the new Win32 10.2 clients on their website.

Seem to include a bunch of hotfixes (some that also require server hotfixes) but no new functionality.

Can be downloaded from the usual downloads page

I see Citrix have released a utility that simplifies running XenApp server under Provisioning Server.

See the KB article here

One word of caution - the vbscript assumes a 32-bit system, and get's the log path wrong when creating the ctxsta.config file if running on 64-bit

It would be good to see this functionality built into the Delaware release, so that XenApp servers can be "provisioned" out of the box.